Mike Wiendels
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Mike Wiendels
People with negative taste make things by trying something very simple and then stripping away pieces until it looks good. They can detect goodness, but not create it, so they’re limited to designs with very few variables, because then they can go thru all the options and pick out the ones that look OK.
People with positive taste, on the other hand,... See more
People with positive taste, on the other hand,... See more
Aaron Swartz • Two Conceptions of Taste (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
- In answering the “personality” question, ask yourself, “If someone met my company or product at a cocktail party, how would I like folks to describe him or her?” Defining the personality of your product describes how you want your brand to relate to customers.
Gibson Biddle • Branding for Builders
I sense there is a shift happening where people are realizing that they are channeling an ambitious impulse - the desire to grow and evolve - into dumb goals. Rejecting legible ambitious might be the most ambitious thing you can do.... See more
A shift from legible ambition (my parents can easily brag about me) to illegible ambition (no one, including me know
Paul Millerd • Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
There’s one way of defeating the inner censor that’s reliable,” he explains. “Just outrun it. If you’re writing 500 words in an hour, there’s just no time for paralysing cogitation.” It doesn’t only apply to writing, though. Virtually any idea, for any kind of useful or worthwhile action to take, proves easier to accomplish, and goes better, when I... See more